# 1 Short title, extent and commencement
(1) This Act may be called the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934.
1[(2) It extends to the whole of India 2***.]
(3) This section shall come into force at once, and the remaining provisions of this Act shall come into force on such date or dates3 as the 4[Central Government] may, by notification in the Gazette of India, appoint.
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1. Subs. by the A.O. 1950, for sub-section <i>(2)</i>.
2. The words "except the State of Jammu and Kashmir" omitted by Act 62 of 1956, s. 2 and the Schedule (w.e.f. 1-11-1956).
3. Sections 2 to 19, 47, 50 to 52, 55 to 58 and 61 were brought into force on 1st January, 1935,<i>see</i> Gazette of India, 1934, Pt. I, p. 1369, and the other sections on 1st April, 1935, <i>seeibid</i>., 1935, Pt. I, p. 538.
4. Subs. by the M.O. 1937, for "G.G. in C".
